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4 de feb. de 2021 · Remembering Carl Stokes, a TV news and political pioneer. Carl B. Stokes, with his wife, Shirley, makes a victory statement at his campaign headquarters in Cleveland, Oct. 3, 1967, after returns ...
Carl Burton Stokes was born on June 21, 1927, in Cleveland. He was very young when his father died. He later moved with his mother and brother to Cleveland’s first federally funded housing project for the poor. Stokes dropped out of high school in 1944 to work in a foundry and then served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war he finished high school and attended college and law ...
6 de nov. de 2017 · Fifty years ago this Election Day, Cleveland voters picked their first black mayor, Carl Stokes – also the first black mayor of any large American city.…
Mayor Carl B. Stokes gives a pollution tour for the press right after the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire. On June 22, 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught on fire in Cleveland, Ohio, just a few miles downstream of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Within months, this event grew from a local story about property damage to an international symbol of water ...
The Cleveland mayoral election of 1967 saw the election of Carl Stokes. Stokes was the first elected African American mayor of a major American city (Cleveland was, at the time, the ninth largest city in the United States). [1] [2] His election came alongside the election of Richard G. Hatcher in the 1967 Gary, Indiana, mayoral election.
7 de nov. de 2007 · Carl Stokes was elected the nation's first black mayor 40 years ago today in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the grandson of a slave and he beat the grandson of a president. The electoral victory forever ...
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